"Scarlett (Ripley novel) Scarlett is a 1991 novel by Alexandra Ripley, written as a sequel to Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, ""Gone with the Wind"". The book debuted on ""The New York Times"" bestsellers list, but both critics and fans of the original novel found Ripley's version to be inconsistent with the literary quality of ""Gone with the Wind"". It was adapted as a television mini-series of the same title in 1994 starring Timothy Dalton as Rhett Butler and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as Scarlett O'Hara. The book begins where ""Gone with the Wind"" left off, with Scarlett attending the funeral of her"
"Alexandra Ripley Alexandra Ripley, ""née"" Braid (January 8, 1934 – January 10, 2004) was an American writer best known as the author of ""Scarlett"" (1991), written as a sequel to ""Gone with the Wind"". Her first novel was ""Who's the Lady in the President's Bed?"" (1972). ""Charleston"" (1981), her first historical novel, was a bestseller, as were her next books ""On Leaving Charleston"" (1984), ""The Time Returns"" (1985), and ""New Orleans Legacy"" (1987). Born Alexandra Elizabeth Braid in Charleston, South Carolina, she attended the elite Ashley Hall and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New"
"Scarlet (novel) Scarlet is a 2013 young adult science fiction novel written by American author Marissa Meyer and published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. It is the second novel in ""The Lunar Chronicles"" series and the sequel to ""Cinder"". The story is loosely based on the fairy tale of ""Little Red Riding Hood"", similar to ""Cinder"", which was loosely based on ""Cinderella"". Scarlet Benoit is a young girl living on her grandmother's farm in Rieux, France. Her grandmother has gone missing for many weeks and Scarlet is sure that she has been kidnapped rather than left"
"Peter Pan in Scarlet Peter Pan in Scarlet (2006) is a novel by British author Geraldine McCaughrean. It is marketed as the ""official sequel"" to J. M. Barrie's ""Peter and Wendy"" (1911), as it was authorised by Great Ormond Street Hospital, which was granted all rights to the characters and original writings by Barrie in 1929. McCaughrean was selected in 2004 following a competition in which novelists were invited to submit a sample chapter and plot outline for a sequel. Set in 1926, the book continues the story of the Lost Boys, the Darling family, and Peter Pan, during the"
"Scarlett (Cassidy novel) Scarlett is a 2006 novel by Cathy Cassidy. It won the 2007 Royal Mail Award for Scottish Children's Books in the 7–11 age group. It reached number 8 in the Ottakars sales chart for children's books in June 2006. The plot revolves around the 12-year-old girl of the title, who is badly affected by the break-up of her parents. After leading a food fight at school, she is sent from London to live with her father in Ireland. Scarlett is a troubled 12-year-old girl who acts out and has attended five schools in two years. She had"
"Finally, Emperor Kai agrees to marry Queen Levana in order to stop the attacks against Earth. Scarlet (novel) Scarlet is a 2013 young adult science fiction novel written by American author Marissa Meyer and published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. It is the second novel in ""The Lunar Chronicles"" series and the sequel to ""Cinder"". The story is loosely based on the fairy tale of ""Little Red Riding Hood"", similar to ""Cinder"", which was loosely based on ""Cinderella"". Scarlet Benoit is a young girl living on her grandmother's farm in Rieux, France. Her grandmother has gone"
"by A.C. Gaughen, Scarlet (2012 novel) is a young former daughter of a noble, dressing in drag. She is a knife thrower, and has a pronounced scar beneath one eye. In 2013, ""Once Upon a Time"" spinoff ""Once Upon a Time in Wonderland"", mostly based on ""Alice in Wonderland"" and its sequel ""Through the Looking-Glass"", revealed in its third episode, ""Forget Me Not"", that one of its main characters was not only The Knave of Hearts from the popular children's tale, ""Alice in Wonderland"", but also Will Scarlet. In the series finale it was revealed that Will became The White"
"home to London and is happy there at last. Scarlett (Cassidy novel) Scarlett is a 2006 novel by Cathy Cassidy. It won the 2007 Royal Mail Award for Scottish Children's Books in the 7–11 age group. It reached number 8 in the Ottakars sales chart for children's books in June 2006. The plot revolves around the 12-year-old girl of the title, who is badly affected by the break-up of her parents. After leading a food fight at school, she is sent from London to live with her father in Ireland. Scarlett is a troubled 12-year-old girl who acts out and"
"met with strong reception. After the Civil War, Warfield published eight more novels, all under her own name. The two most popular were ""Ferne Fleming"" (1877) and its sequel ""The Cardinal's Daughter"" (1877); however, no work gained the same degree of success as her first novel. She died in 1877. Walker Percy's novel ""Lancelot"" bears a resemblance to ""The Household of Bouverie."" Despite Walker's disclaimer, both the Percy biographer Bertram Wyatt-Brown and his nephew William Armstrong Percy, III believe that he based the novel, so different from his others, on his predecessor's work. Catherine Anne Warfield Catherine Anne Warfield (née"
"P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The new short story is titled ""A Study in Emerald"" (2004) and is modelled with a parallel structure. A Study in Scarlet A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation"
"picks up where Ripley's ""Scarlett"" ended, the next one is about Scarlett's daughter Cat. Other books include a prequel trilogy about Scarlett's grandmother Solange and a three-part miniseries of a supposed illegitimate daughter of Carreen. Gone with the Wind (novel) Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal"
"as Harriet Toppington. Scruples (novel) Scruples is a 1978 novel by Judith Krantz. A direct sequel, ""Scruples Two"", was published in 1992. The novel details the life story of protagonist Wilhelmina Hunnewell Winthrop (""Billy""), as she evolves from the overweight ""poor relation"" in an aristocratic Boston Brahmin family to become a thin, stylish woman who is left a vast fortune by the death of her much older first husband and who founds an upscale Beverly Hills boutique called ""Scruples."" Born the only child of a distinguished scientist, who is a member of the venerable Winthrop family but must work for"
"1990s, when a sequel was finally produced in 1994, in the form of a television miniseries. ""Scarlett"" was based upon the novel by Alexandra Ripley, itself a sequel to Mitchell's book. British actors Joanne Whalley and Timothy Dalton were cast as Scarlett and Rhett, and the series follows Scarlett's relocation to Ireland after again becoming pregnant by Rhett. Explanatory notes Citations Further reading Gone with the Wind (film) Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film, adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick"
"Geraldine McCaughrean Geraldine McCaughrean ( ; born 6 June 1951) is a British children's novelist. She has written more than 170 books, including ""Peter Pan in Scarlet"" (2004), the official sequel to ""Peter Pan"" commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital, the holder of Peter Pan's copyright. Her work has been translated into 44 languages worldwide. She has received the Carnegie Medal twice and the Michael L. Printz Award among others. McCaughrean was born in London and grew up in North London. She was the youngest of three children. She studied teaching but found her true vocation in writing. She claims"
"as a sketch artist and portrait painter. Between takes on ""Gone with the Wind"", she made sketches and drawings of her fellow actors. Soon, Rhett was creating portraits of American servicemen in the Charleston vicinity. Some of her later works included portraits of Admiral Louis Emil Denfeld, and librarian Estellene P. Walker, the latter of which is on display in the South Carolina State Library. Coincidentally, Rhett was commissioned to paint the portrait of a then 19-year-old Charleston resident Alexandra Braid, later known as Alexandra Ripley, author of ""Scarlett"" (1991), the sequel to ""Gone with the Wind"". Rhett illustrated a"
"This carries over into ""Peter and Wendy"", where Hook and the other pirates are shown to be strongly reverent and respectful of mothers, while Peter seems to hate all mothers save Wendy, even forbidding the subject of mothers until her arrival. In ""Peter Pan and Scarlet"", the exact opposite is stated. Peter Pan in Scarlet Peter Pan in Scarlet (2006) is a novel by British author Geraldine McCaughrean. It is marketed as the ""official sequel"" to J. M. Barrie's ""Peter and Wendy"" (1911), as it was authorised by Great Ormond Street Hospital, which was granted all rights to the characters"
"Scarlett (musical) Scarlett is a 1970 musical with a score by Harold Rome. The original 1966 Japanese book is by Kazuo Kikuta, and the English version of the book is by Horton Foote. The Tokyo production was directed by American director/choreographer Joe Layton, who later directed a production in the London West End. London producer Harold Fielding cancelled his plans for a 1974 Broadway production, and the musical has never been performed on Broadway. Based on Margaret Mitchell's bestseller ""Gone with the Wind"", it traces the fate of self-centered Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara and her passionately turbulent relationship with dashing"
"Shirley (novel) Shirley, A Tale is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after ""Jane Eyre"" (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. The novel's popularity led to Shirley's becoming a woman's name. The title character was given the name that her father had intended to give a son. Before the"
"Ashley Wilkes George Ashley Wilkes is a fictional character in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel ""Gone with the Wind"" and the later film of the same name. The character also appears in the 1991 book ""Scarlett"", a sequel to ""Gone with the Wind"" written by Alexandra Ripley, and in ""Rhett Butler's People"" by Donald McCaig. Ashley is the man with whom Scarlett O'Hara is obsessed. Gentlemanly yet indecisive, he loves Scarlett, but finds he has more in common with Melanie, his distant cousin and later his wife. However, he is tormented by his attraction to Scarlett. Unfortunately for him and Scarlett,"
"Scruples (novel) Scruples is a 1978 novel by Judith Krantz. A direct sequel, ""Scruples Two"", was published in 1992. The novel details the life story of protagonist Wilhelmina Hunnewell Winthrop (""Billy""), as she evolves from the overweight ""poor relation"" in an aristocratic Boston Brahmin family to become a thin, stylish woman who is left a vast fortune by the death of her much older first husband and who founds an upscale Beverly Hills boutique called ""Scruples."" Born the only child of a distinguished scientist, who is a member of the venerable Winthrop family but must work for a living, Wilhelmina"
"Murders"" (based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's ""Heavenly Creatures"") and other works. These neglected works, as well as her controversial television documentary, ""The Holy Family Album"", are discussed in Charlotte Crofts' book, ""Anagrams of Desire"" (2003). Her novel ""Nights at the Circus"" won the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for literature. Her last novel, ""Wise Children"", is a surreal wild ride through British theatre and music hall traditions. At the time of her death, Carter had started work on a sequel to Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" based on the later life of Jane's stepdaughter, Adèle Varens;"
"It features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. The Brontë sisters were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published but were subsequently accepted as classics. They had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The sisters returned to prose, producing a novel each the following year: Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"", Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"" and Anne's ""Agnes Grey"". Later, Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848) and Charlotte's ""Villette"" (1853)"
"its enduring presence in popular culture. It was also the subject of a 1988 documentary, """", detailing the film's difficult production history. In 1990, the United States Postal Service issued a stamp depicting Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh embracing in a scene from the film. Following publication of her novel, Margaret Mitchell was inundated with requests for a sequel but claimed to not have a notion of what happened to Scarlett and Rhett, and that she had ""left them to their ultimate fate"". Mitchell continued to resist pressure from Selznick and MGM to write a sequel until her death in"
"The sequel ""Stiletto"" was simultaneously released in the United States and United Kingdom on 14 June 2016 through Little, Brown and Company. The book follows a young woman in her thirties who wakes up in a park surrounded by bodies wearing latex gloves. She's unable to remember anything about herself or how she or the bodies got there, and her only clue is a letter in her coat pocket that says, ""To You"". Inside is a letter that tells her the body previously belonged to Myfanwy Thomas, who worked in a secret government organization and was targeted by an unknown"
"A Thread of Scarlet A Thread of Scarlet (also known as ""Satan and Cardinal Campbell"") is a 1959 novel by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall. The hero, as often in Marshall's novels, is a Scottish priest. The novel tracks the life of Father Campbell, a convert to Catholicism from a wealthy family, from his ordination to the priesthood just before the First World War until his death many years later, as a Cardinal. In his first parish assignment, Father Campbell found himself pitted against his Rector, a canon, in a kind of running conflict the first of a series of minor"
"to establish a new nation. In the sequels − both in official sequels (""Scarlett"", written by Alexandra Ripley, and ""Rhett Butler's People,"" written by Donald McCaig) and in the unofficial ""Winds of Tara"" by Kate Pinotti − Scarlett finally succeeds in getting Rhett back. Rhett is the eldest child. In ""Gone with the Wind"" only his younger sister Rosemary is named; his brother and sister-in-law are mentioned very briefly, but not by name. In the sequel ""Scarlett"" by Alexandra Ripley, the Butler parents are called Steven and Eleanor, the younger brother is Ross. In this sequel Rhett marries Anne Hampton"
"Summer"" (1958), starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, is very loosely based on stories by William Faulkner, primarily ""The Hamlet"". That film was remade as the television series of the same name. <br> The Hamlet The Hamlet is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1940, about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. It is the first of the ""Snopes"" trilogy, completed by ""The Town"" (1957), and ""The Mansion"" (1959). The novel follows the exploits of the Snopes family, beginning with Ab Snopes, who is introduced more fully in Faulkner's ""The Unvanquished"". Most of the book centers"
"novel ""Social Crimes"" was released in 2002. ""Social Crimes"" was the first of a two-book series introducing Jo Slater, a New York socialite who commits murder. According to Norwich, many readers of the same social circle, of which Hitchcock is also a member, had delighted in speculating that the character was in fact based on them. In ""The New York Times Book Review"" about ""Social Crimes"", Sarah Haight remarked that ""Hitchcock depicts the glamour and fickleness of the Slaters' upper-crust life with the witty weariness of a seasoned observer."" In June 2005, Hitchcock published the sequel to ""Social Crimes"" which"
"Penny into a fantastic land called Dreamwood. After her death, Kissling/Langley's friend Helen Bugbee founded the Traumwald Press—named after the land in ""The Hoogles and Alexander""—and published two of her works posthumously: ""Fool's Mate"", a sonnet sequence (1970); and ""Tom Sawyer Comes Home"" (1973), a novel sequel to ""Tom Sawyer"". Bugbee also contributed an introduction to the 1982 publication of the original version of ""Swamp Angel"" by Academy Chicago Publishers. Dorothy Langley Dorothy Langley was the pseudonym of Dorothy Selma Richardson Kissling, (February 14, 1904 – April 1, 1969) an American novelist. She won the Friends of American Writers award"
"and had translated ""Alice in Wonderland"" into Russian. He even called Carroll the ""first Humbert Humbert"". ""Lolita"" contains a few brief allusions in the text to the ""Alice"" books, though overall Nabokov avoided direct allusions to Carroll. In her book, ""Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin"", Joyce Milton claims that a major inspiration for the novel was Charlie Chaplin's relationship with his second wife, Lita Grey, whose real name was Lillita and is often misstated as Lolita. Graham Vickers in his book ""Chasing Lolita: How Popular Culture Corrupted Nabokov's Little Girl All Over Again"" argues that the two major real-world"
"Bloodline (Cary novel) Bloodline is a 2005 novel written by Kate Cary. It is an unofficial sequel to Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"". Like the original novel, ""Bloodline"" is an epistolary novel written entirely in letters, diary entries and news articles. A second novel, titled """" was later released. ""Bloodline"" takes place during World War I. John Shaw, a nineteen-year-old, joins the British Army and is sent to the front lines, in the trenches. He works as a communications officer who listens to German radio feeds and translates what he hears. His regiment commander is a man named Quincey Harker, who is"
"trial is about to conclude. After Ellery gets a private conversation with the judge, a criminal then receives justice. After numerous popular mystery novels, a radio program and a number of movies, the character of Ellery Queen was at this point firmly established. This novel is more frank about sexual matters than earlier Queen works (for instance, in 1942's ""Calamity Town"", the possibility of extramarital sex is referred to entirely in euphemisms). The plot device of the ""dying clue"" had been used in Queen's short stories but this is the first novel that relies on such a device. The Scarlet"
"their relations with industrialists, focusing more on the thinking and perspective of the employers. ""Shirley"" (1849), Charlotte Brontë's second published novel after ""Jane Eyre"", is also a social novel. Set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, the action in ""Shirley"" takes place against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. Social problems are also an important concern in the novels of Charles Dickens, including in particular poverty and the unhealthy living conditions associated with it, the exploitation of ordinary people by money"